Acting and emotional availability
What's the difference between feelings and emotions?
🔸Feeling is a conscious form of a person's attitude to reality. Most often, we are aware of such feelings as love, friendship, envy, pride, etc. Unlike emotions, feelings are long-term.
🔸Emotions are immediate experiences, a person's reaction to a specific situation. We are not always aware of our emotions and, unlike feelings, they are not long-term, but momentary and completely depend on the circumstances offered here and now.
🔸Feelings are expressed through emotions, which is why these two concepts are closely related, but we need to be able to distinguish them. In specific situations, emotions and feelings may not coincide and contradict each other. For example, a a very dear and loved person can suddenly cause a negative emotion.
🔸Why does an actor need the ability to differentiate between feelings and emotions?
When working on a role and analyzing the material, you will be able to more accurately determine your character's behavior. Remember that the emotional spectrum of your character can be very broad and volatile. Feelings are unlikely to change throughout the story. The first is always inextricably linked to the second, and the stronger the feelings, the brighter the emotions, even if they are contradictory.
How to work on your emotional availability
In our school, we offer a unique approach to working with actors' emotions, which will allow you to:
🔸Expand your emotional range. You will be able to see yourself from a new angle and discover new possibilities, without copying, imitating or indicating.
🔸Learn to cry "on cue" and evoke other emotions required by the material at the snap of a finger.
🔸Easily switch from work to real life staying sane and relaxed, which is very important when constantly working with heavy material.
🔸Enjoy the process without putting so much effort into it. You will learn to experience and convey emotions with ease, which will also allow you to feel relief in many other life aspects as well.